Tuesday

November 18, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

2021 Cabo Delgado offensive

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies of committing war crimes through a joint task force deployed to protect natural gas sites in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The ECCHR alleges that the joint task force illegally imprisoned, beat, tortured, and killed over 220 civilians. (DW)

Palestinian political violence

2025 Gush Etzion Junction attack

At least three people are killed, including both perpetrators, and three others are injured, including a woman mistakenly shot by soldiers, in a vehicle-ramming attack and stabbing attack in Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (CNN)

Russo-Ukrainian war

Kharkiv strikes

A 17-year-old girl is killed, and nine other people are injured in overnight Russian missile strikes on Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)

Middle Eastern crisis

Gaza war

2025 Sidon airstrike

Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (MENA via The New Arab)

Israel–Hezbollah conflict

Two people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on vehicles in Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)

Arts and culture

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sells for US$236.4 million (203.2 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the most expensive modern art piece. (AP) (The Guardian)